/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6743573

>"supersize me"

That's McDonald's you fucking ignoramus - and they don't even supersize anymore.

>>6743581
yes, fucking retard, thanks for pointing out the obvious. wendys and mcdonalds are both fastfood joints that serve the same type of food.

Umpossible, salads are over priced and a plain baked potato there is sad

>>6743587
potato is sad? still nutritious, i reckon. also they have chili. so thats starch, protein, low fat. they also serve powerade.

>>6743573
Wendy's chili.

>>6743573
If poverty is your motivation for eating fast food you're still wasting money. Even a meal from the value menu will still be about $3 to put together. If you're making beans and rice you can get 2-3 meals out of about a dollar's worth of groceries.

Do that and save the Wendy's as a treat (if you actually like it). You'll be healthier and wealthier that way.

>>6743591
that's actually a cool idea. how does one make beans and rice taste good though?

>>6743595
1) stop being a pussy
2) seasonings and hot sauce

>>6743581
It's like you think that one brand of shitty American fast food is somehow less overwhelmingly calorie dense than another. The guy in that video could have gotten just as fat eating Wendy's or Carl's Junior.

>>6743597
im willing to try that. but i have my doubts. do you do curry style some batches? louisiana style other times?

>>6743590
yeah thats an old standby. cheap and nutritious. love it.

>>6743598
It turns out he was actually cheating to gain that much weight as he did in Supersize Me.

Based purely off his supposed caloric intake, he couldn't have gained so much weight and deterioted in health so severely just from a month of poor eating.
No one else has been able to replicate his results by eating the same amount as supposed in the documentary.

He's also never published his logs of the food that he ate, so it's even harder to confirm.

Why not both?
Buy the chili and pour it on rice at home

>>6743620
oh hohoohohohoho... dude, thats a killer idea. only problem is wendys doesnt sell glutton-sized containers of their precious chili.

otherwise thats the best fucking advice i've received

I work there and while I obviously spend less they do have decent food as opposed to others. Grilled chicken is good and the wraps are cheap, side salads are cheap. Chili is really filling and here we have broccoli to put on the potatoes as well. And the half salads are only 4 something, and here's a protip I've dumped one in a full size bowl... They are the same size. You're basically getting charged extra for another half pc ofchicken and an extra dressing.

Like don't do it everydY and stay awAy from their XXL bacon n cheese shut and it's decently good for you. I recommend shopping too though dude.

>>6743625
They do! Maybe not everywhere but ask for a family chili. It's like 10 bucks

>>6743610
This is true. No one has been able to replicate the results of the "study" conducted, even under lab conditions. I read about some Swedish college kids who replicated the experiment, putting away up to 6600 calories a day - 1600 more than Spurlock was supposedly consuming - in fast food to record the results.Most participants didn't gain half the weight reported in the documentary, or suffer any major negative health effects. That can't be said for everyone, of course, and of course it's a bullshit idea to gorge yourself on fast food like a glutton and expect nothing to happen. But fast food makes a bad enough name for itself without making shit up along the way.

>>6743638
im all over that.

>>6743634
yeah wendys is much healthier than mcdonalds or burger king. i really actually respect them as a food source for poor people.

if youre actually poor you arent going to get nearly as much nutrition for your dollar at wendys than if youd stop being a faggot and cook your own meals. rice, beans, potatoes, vegetables on sale, chicken or tuna when its cheap. quit being lazy, lurk a little bit more, use your head. wendys is going to keep you broke and hungry.

>>6743573
Wendy's is cheap? Have you even been to the grocery store in the last 10 years you fatass.

>>6743573
>wendys is cheap
Nope

>>6743670
>>6743674
it's cheap for prepared foods. the absolute cheapest.

if you faggot idiots want to talk about really cheap, romanian, bulgarian, gypsy-style foods, then rice and beans is the thing. but im not that poor. fucking scum.

>>6743686
>if you faggot idiots want to talk about really cheap, romanian, bulgarian, gypsy-style foods, then rice and beans is the thing. but im not that poor. fucking scum.

No need to get ass blasted you silly cunt.

>>6743595
Look up some of the classic beans and rice dishes:
Rajma
Chana masala
Cajun style red beans
Mujadara
Bean "chili"
Caribbean rice and peas
Dal

Then start making your shopping list.

>>6743686
>Talks about being poor and wanting to eat cheap food
>insults cheaper option for being poor people's food

>>6743711
thank you. thats the real deal.

>>6743763
My pleasure. I fucking live on beans and rice. Not because I'm poor, but because I like expensive indulgences. Gotta balance the budget somehow. And if I'm going to go out to eat at nice places and drinking expensive bottles of wine I'll just slash the home cooking budget to the bone to make up for it. Mujadara is fucking delicious, btw. And so goddam cheap.

>>6743794
i hear you and approve your discretion. thats an adult move.

I hope I'm never poor. Beans are the essential cheap staple, but I can't stand them. Any other good, cheap protein staple? Peanut butter is considered pretty expensive, no?

>>6743829
i would like to stab your eyes with a taco bell spork

>>6743829
lentils

>>6743573
>poor as fuck
>use send feedback on fast food places
>taco bell, kfc, hardees, mcdonalds, burger king, wendys, five guys, sub way, pizza hut, dominos.
>complained how the food was aweful/cold/soggy
>receive emails or calls asking for my name and what I ordered
>tell them to ask for mr *manager* when you order and your meal is free.

I even got 15 dollar starbucks gift card, which I then used to pay for my vpn (private internet access accepts gift cards)

their apple pecan chicken salad is incredibly delicious
>tfw the full size is 590 cal tho

>>6743589
Have you heard of the glycemic index? Protein sure there is but its accompanied by large amounts of sodium. You could still develop hypertension and diabetes just eating the "healthier" items

>>6743589
are you trying to fucking imply that powerade is healthy?

Do you live in an urban environment where having access to cheap groceries is a burden?

Cooking for yourself is almost always cheaper, and chilli and baked potatoes cost exactly jack shit to make yourself compared to relying on a fast food place.

>>6745171
better than coke

>>6745172
Cooking for one is almost never cheaper, unless you're exclusively making stuff in bulk and freezing. Depending on what you buy though it can be tastier

>>6745182
just drink fucking water

its cheaper and healthier

>>6745197
well yeah duh, but if you have to choose between it and coke, powerade is the lesser of two evils. it's also delicious.

>>6745201
JUST DRINK WATER

>>6745197
>vegans on youtube saying they eat 10 lbs of lettuce for a meal
>"just drink water, it's healthier"
okay, water and lettuce, i got it.

>>6745201
It's also liquid diabetes. Sugary drinks are even worse for you than something like a big cheeseburger, because at least a cheeseburger fills you up.

>>6745206
>strawmanning this hard
eat whatever you want

soda and sugar drinks are poison

>>6745195
>Cooking for one is almost never cheaper, unless you're exclusively making stuff in bulk and freezing. Depending on what you buy though it can be tastier

This is so fucking retarded. What are you cooking that's going to cost that much more because you're cooking for one? I mean there's the energy cost to consider, if you're cooking 2 baked potatoes at a time instead of 20, but the food itself doesn't vary that much, except for things that are available in huge bulk sizes (e.g. a 5 gallon jug of salsa, or a 20 pound sack of rice...although if you eat rice regularly 20 pounds is the way to go even cooking for one).

>>6745206
Here's the facts: An 8 oz serving of Powerade has normally about 50 calories.

Coke has 97 calories per 8 oz serving.

The thing is: how often do you buy an 8oz cup of soda? Most restaurants sell it in 22-32 oz settings, meaning you are tripling the calories or quadrupling them.

That means you're getting 150 calories from Powerade alone. Except that those calories don't make you feel FULLER, they just hit your sugar fix. (which does have some actual problems. Look into "Fed Up" for a recent documentary asserting that sugar is the main problem with today's food.)

But if you don't like plain water, it can suck to try and changes to that. I recommend this instead: If you slice two whole lemons, and a whole cucumber into a gallon container of water, do you know how many calories you have? roughly 74 calories. Total. In a gallon, aka 16 cups of water. And that's assuming you ATE the entire cucumber over the course of drinking it all.

That leads to a per cup serving of ~4.5 calories. That's a tenth of what you were drinking from the Powerade.

It's not easy, but it IS better.

from a nutritional standpoint (you know, nutrition, the purpose of food) there is no such thing as cheap fast food.

eggs, oats, dry beans, peanuts/peanut butter, milk, potatoes...altogether under $20 and you'll be fed for at least a month.

>>6745213
A single burger if you extract the cost comes down to very cheap, but you can't buy 1 slice of tomato, 10 cents worth of chopped onions, etc. Food goes bad so unless you want to eat the same thing multiple days in a row it needs to be frozen and most food sucks after its been frozen

>>6743573
>Supersize Me

You know no one has been able to replicate the results of that documentary, right?

Matter of fact a college professor had his students replicate the supposed 5,000 calorie a day diet, and aside from feeling a little more tired than usual, they didn't have any of the adverse health effects the documentary claimed the guy had at the end of one month.

Get the grilled chicken without mayo.

Ex wendys employee here

>>6743573
As a former student from a poor family:

Dried pasta can be bought in bulk quite cheaply.
Get some mayo, frozen diced spinach, and tins of tuna.
Then add/buy spices (schwartz is best) to add extra flavour. With a decent spice rack, anything can be tasty.
Throw in veggie mexican bean burgers now and then to add extra filling.

Buy tins of veg. They are actually usually decent or good quality in water.
Seriously, peas, various types of beans, sweetcorn, mushrooms, carrots...

Buy rice and noodles cheap for variety, as pasta can get boring.

Eating "healthy" tends to cost more because people go over the top and buy the freshest stuff they can from places that aren't that cheap (muh quality)

You can also keep various veg and regrow them at home, notably mushrooms, potatoes, onions etc.

Going to fast food places is actually a trap. It seems cheap, but its actually more expensive than you think, and will fuck your diet up, often making you want to eat more of it, so it gets more expensive.

McDonalds has MSG in the fries to make you want more. I would guess other fast food places use it too.

>people who think fast food is cheap
just eat peanut butter you fucking retard
it tastes great and there's at least 2500 calories per pound of it (which you can buy anywhere for around 2 to 3 dollars)
eat that with some crackers and you're good to go

Wendy's is NOT cheap. $6 for a chicken sandwich? You can buy 6 sandwiches worth of chicken at that price. With one measly slice of tomato and one leaf of lettuce per sandwich, you can also buy ONE head of greens, ONE tomato, and still make 6 sandwiches and maybe a shitty salad.

Cheap food is rice and beans with seasonal veggies. Pasta and canned tomatoes can be made into delicious italian food in about half an hour.

Lrn2poorfag; if it's already cooked for you, it's either industrial waste or too good for you.

>>6743573
With fucking 8 dollar salads, good luck.

Make your own food, you useless fuck.

>>6745205
>he fell for the water meme

>>6743573
Eat the chili

>>6743573
well OP...
i think you should enjoy wendy's even if you die of fat.

In the place i live we dont even have MCdonald in the whole city.
and even when i whent to other places in my country never went to a MCdonald

>>6749612
and where the fuck do you live, Tibet?

Keep track of your calorie intake

why don't you just buy raw veggies and some cheap cuts of chicken from your local supermarket.

>>6749666
theres no supermarket around. no butchers either

its just wendys

>>6749760
are you kidding me
that is impossible
look harder

>>6749763
i will look very hard

Canadian fast food I find is better. Moved to hamilton from nyc if that is saying anything. Notice the 2 types of beans? This plate was full for 2$. And the beef tasted real.

>>6743573
chili+ potato
chili+basic salad

>>6750011
Well is that nice too bad WE DON'T LIVE IN FUCKING CANADA! FUCK YOUR GOOD FAST FOOD.

>>6750011
>2 kinds of beans
holy shit dude I can't believe it

>>6750108
>>6750140
Canada does have better fast food. Go to an A&W if you ever go there. Fantastic. Harveys is also fucking God-tier. I like the Harvey's in Canada more than any other fast food place to be honest.

>pic related. A&W in Stratford, Ontario

>>6751362
>tfw A&W didn't do well in your country and closed down
First time I tried it overseas it was god-tier, now I miss it so much.

>>6751378
Canadian here. A&W, Harvey's are the main stop on road trips

>pic unrelated

Stay away from Wendy's.....eat a fucking salad fron 7 eleven.

>>6743829
Eggs are pretty cheap. I always get the big free range ones but if you don't mind slightly smaller, weaker eggs then you can get battery hen eggs for next to nothing. They're extremely versatile too, there must be a million dishes that use eggs as a main ingredient and most of them are pretty easy.

The main way I combine eggs and rice is by making egg fried rice though, and that's probably not the healthiest way to go about it.

Also, If you can find cans of tuna on special offer, that stuff can be quite cheap and protein-rich too but I wouldn't make it a staple because of mercury.

Thare are almost certainly nutrients present in beans that you don't get from eggs or tuna though, though, so the best advice I can give is to keep your diet as varied and balanced as possible.

>>6745086
I used to do a similar thing with big grocery chains and big brand foods about 15 years ago. No idea if it still works, but:

>buy stack of envelopes and stamps
>buy various products
>eat products
>invent flaw with products (hair, fingernail in food, missing component, stale from improper storage etc.)
>write letters of complaint including where and when purchased
>send letters of complaint (with packaging) to the addresses on the packages
>wait
>receive coupons and cheques in post, varying from £3 to £15 each

The grocery chain own brand products gave the best payoff. They'd be vouchers for the entire store so I could get anything and they'd be worth £10-15, whereas Mars(TM) only gave £3 vouchers to be used for a dozen different Mars(TM) products.

When I handed in my voucher at the checkout the lady knew exactly what I'd been up to though and I live in a small town so it was a bit embarrassing. I don't do it any more because it's basically theft, but I've never had much sympathy for multi-national corporations.

I can't advocate anyone do this because it's against 4chan rules to encourage breaking the law (I'm sure it's technically low-level fraud).

>>6751440
711 dont sell salads, or do they? i used to eat their tuna sandwiches on a weekly basis, but that was years ago

>>6747517
tired of rice and beans. its really fucking boring. would you honestly CHOOSE the labor-intense rice and beans diet over a slightly more expensive wendys diet?

>>6747697
yeah, their chili is classic. cheap and so full of protein. also their potatoes. this is why im glad wendys is across the street rather than mcdonalds or burger king. wendys also has a large variety of salads. half size and normal size both

THIS WHOLE THREAD IS AN ASTOUNDING AFFRONT TO VIBRANCY
OP YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT.
ASTOUNDING YEAH?
YOU ARENT GETTING THE VIBRANT NUTRIENTS YOU NEED FROM WENDYS!
YEAH? NUTRIENTS YES? YES CHEF?
NUTRIENTS YEAH? YEAH? VIBRANT NUTRIENTS YES CHEF?
ITS SHIT YEAH? ITS SHIT! OVERWHELMINGLY COMPLETELY SHIT!
COOK YOURSELF A MEAL YOU FUCKING NONCE!
FRESH INGREDIENTS YES?
A GOOD MEAL YEAH? YOU MAKE IT? OKAY?
YES CHEF? YES?
VIBRANT YES?
NOW FUCK OFF!

>>6751538
Every f'n time.

Rice and beans are not labor intensive as most of the cooking is hands-off and I can do other things while its cooking.

As for "boring", change up the seasonings and the texture.

As for price? Lol, it's a fraction of the cost of Wendy's.

baked potato and chili

you really needed a thread for this?

>>6751549
Why do people always post this guy and yell?

>>6751580

They're quoting him. Gordon Ramsay is famous for yelling.

>>6751564
Fair enough mate

$5 at Wendy's = dollar menu burger/fries/drink or a small salad.

$5 at grocery store = LARGE amounts of kale, veggies, small bag of frozen chicken breast strips, etc

Why is this even a question. You know the difference between a burger and a fucking salad, OP. This is why america is so fucking fat.

>>6743724
This person deserves their inevitable diabetes. All we can do is open the door, but idiots like him have to actually step through it and a lot of the time they choose not to.

>>6751701
I'm not American. Stop being so obsessed.

>>6751718
So? Anon still has a point, the reason Americans are fat can still apply to non-Americans, especially if they're eating American fast food and drinking American soda.

>>6743573
>how can i eat healthy using wendys for the bulk of my diet?
Become a professional bear wrestler and work off the cals.

>>6751701
>2 lbs chicken breasts ($1.96)

What? I live in poor Appalachia and can't remember the last time I saw chicken breasts for less than $1.99/lb.

>>6751771
that pic and poster are full of shit.

>>6743595
imposibru

>>6749660
check his trip you fool of a cook

>>6751538
Yes, because Wendy's is the most disgusting fast food there is.

>>6751701
there is no way

on this green fucking earth

you are finding 90%+ lean ground beef at 2.98 PER POUND

>96

>>6754975
That infographic is shit, but sales do exist.

>>6754975
Sales, nigga

>>6751378
We have those here in America, silly. It tastes like Burger King before they went to shit. Nothing special.

>get a new job
>learn that I get half off at Wendy's

What are some sensible things to get there to make sure I don't balloon up? I'm thinking chili and salads.

>>6757549
grilled chicken wraps , too

NOT the nuggets. NOT the fried chicken sandwiches

>>6757561
Thanks, didn't know they had those.

>>6751580
Neo-/ck/ is real.